Pigsty Blog Articles
Postgres Extension Day - See You There!

The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day
The annual PostgreSQL developer conference will be held in Montreal in May. Like the first PG Con.Dev, there's also an additional dedicated event - Postgres Extensions Day
OrioleDB is Coming! 4x Performance, Eliminates Pain Points, Storage-Compute Separation

A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.
A PG kernel fork acquired by Supabase, claiming to solve PG's XID wraparound problem, eliminate table bloat issues, improve performance by 4x, and support cloud-native storage. Now part of the Pigsty family.
OpenHalo: MySQL Wire-Compatible PostgreSQL is Here!

What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.
What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.
PGFS: Using Database as a Filesystem

Leverage JuiceFS to turn PostgreSQL into a filesystem with PITR capabilities!
Leverage JuiceFS to turn PostgreSQL into a filesystem with PITR capabilities!
Pigsty v3.4: PITR Enhancement, Locale Best Practices, Auto Certificates

Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.
Pigsty v3.4 adds pgBackRest backup monitoring, cross-cluster PITR restore, automated HTTPS certificates, locale best practices, and full-platform IvorySQL and Apache AGE support.
Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB

If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.
If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.
Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."
Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."
Comparing Oracle and PostgreSQL Transaction Systems

The PG community has started punching up: Cybertec’s Laurenz Albe breaks down how Oracle’s transaction system stacks against PostgreSQL.
The PG community has started punching up: Cybertec’s Laurenz Albe breaks down how Oracle’s transaction system stacks against PostgreSQL.
Pigsty v3.3: 404 Extensions, Turnkey Apps, New Website

Pigsty v3.3 pushes available extensions to 404, adds turnkey app deployment with app.yml, delivers Certbot integration for automated HTTPS, and launches a redesigned website.
Pigsty v3.3 pushes available extensions to 404, adds turnkey app deployment with app.yml, delivers Certbot integration for automated HTTPS, and launches a redesigned website.
PostgreSQL Ecosystem Frontier Developments

Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.
Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.
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